Page 27 of His Daggered Heart

“Oh, I know you would, but you know what?”

“What?” it comes out quietly, my throat swollen with need.

“I’m not going to, not yet. You’ve been a bad girl, Alex Monroe.” He removes his leg and sits back, all the power in his hands, and I fucking love it.

“You want me to be a good girl for you, Kohen?Or…”I drag the word out. “Do you want me to be your filthy little slut?” I wink and he jumps from the unexpected touch of my shoe pressing gently on his dick. He’s hard, as I expected. We are insatiable, always craving the other. At this point, I don’t think anything could tear us apart.

We eat our food and attempt to drink the gigantic milkshake from heaven, making small conversations as we finish the meal. We get up and Kohen heads to pay at the counter.

“I’m going to use the restroom before we go,” I tell him.

“Okay, angel,” he smiles and I kiss him on the cheek before heading to the back of the diner where Henry said the restrooms were.

There’s a huge table of guys back here and they are laughing and talking loudly, just my luck. I keep my head and eyes down, I don’t want to make accidental eye contact with any of them. I usually end up getting catcalled because they think I’m giving them fuck me eyes or something. I rush past their table that reeks of booze and cigarettes. I’m so glad we didn’t sit back here. I shut the restroom door, nervous as hell. Thanks, trauma. I do my business and wash my hands, and then my phone pings.

Handsome: I’m at the bike, angel. It’s kind of cool now so I wanted to warm it up and have your jacket ready.

Awe. He has a jacket for me? That’s so cute. I fix my hair in a low ponytail. I don’t want it whipping in my face if it’s cold, that would probably hurt. I exit the restroom in a rush and run straight into a hard body. I apologize and try to move around them without looking up, but their hand has a firm grasp on my arm. I look up and my heart sinks, fear fills my veins, and my blood runs cold.

Walker.

A gut-turning smirk on his face. “How you doing, lil mama?”

Chapter 22

Alex

Myeyesdartaround,looking for Kohen as I try and swallow the lump in my throat. He’s outside and there is no telling what Walker will do. Why is he here? Then it hits me like a ton of bricks. Crystal’s warning.

He came here to try and start over.

My heart is pounding, the blood rushing through my body and not in a good way. I can hear it whooshing in my ears and then they start to pop. My knees feel like jello and I don’t want him to be the thing that’s holding me up. I don’t want to have to lean on his strength. I hate him. He tore me down, no, he broke me to pieces until all that was left of me was on the ground. Then he stepped on it when he walked away into the arms of someone better.

I’m like a deer in headlights and I hate it. I have worked so hard to be strong, to let everything he did to me go. But here he is, making me feel weak. Like a piece of paper that he can rip to shreds, a doll he can break. Worthless.

It’s been years. Why does he still have this power over me?

“You look good, ma.”

Bile rises in my throat at his old pet name for me. My vision blurs. What the fuck is wrong with me?Hit him, push him, fight him to get his filthy fucking hands off of you, Alex. Do something.

His hand moves up my arm as his grip remains tight on the other. The back of his hand comes up to my chest, passing over my nipple and it hardens. I look away in shame. “What’s the matter, baby? You didn’t miss me?”

“No!” manages to escape in an angry quiver and I hate how powerless I sound.

He flips his hand over and palms my breast, pinching my nipple as he pulls back.

“Your body is telling me differently. Your body is telling me that your pussy is probably dripping wet for me to pull you into this restroom and fuck you like the whore you are.”

Hot tears stream down my cheek. I hate how he is talking to me, the way his words make my skin crawl. Only Kohen can talk to me like this, only he makes me feel safe enough to treat me like I’m his to use.

Walker cups my pussy and leans in to whisper in my ear. “I saw you sitting there with that little bitch boyfriend of yours. Tell him that you will always belong to me. I own your mind, I own your body and I most definitely own this juicy ass pussy.” He shoves me against the wall, his hand around my throat. “And tell him he’s on borrowed time because I will be coming for what’s mine.”

Before I can blink, he is slammed into the restroom door by Kohen.

“Get your fucking hands off my girl, motherfucker.” Kohen climbs over Walker before he even has a chance to get up. I’m sobbing now. Huge hot tears roll down my face uncontrollably because Kohen came to check on me, save me, keep me safe.

The guys from Walker’s table come and pull Kohen off of him. Fear fills me more than it ever has. I scream for help. Our waiter pops up in my peripheral and I plead with him as Kohen is fighting off multiple guys. He darts away and comes back with a huge shotgun.

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